Golfers step up to the Moveit4smiles challenge

golfMoveit4smiles has helped raise £2,000 in aid of Mouth Cancer Action Month as part of its pedometer challenge.

The mouth cancer action group held its pedometer challenge, where teams compete to see who can take the most steps, as part of the Argus Appeal Charity Golf Tournament at the East Brighton Golf Course.

As part of the initiative, 80 keen participants were challenged to keep a track of how many steps they took during the day, with prizes going to the person who did the most and the person who did the least steps.

Aside from raising money in aid of mouth cancer, the event raised an impressive total amount of £10,000, to be split between local charities including the Argus Appeal, Rockinghorse, cystic fibrosis charities and Birdies 4 Children.

Hot stepper

Speaking on the event, co-founder of Moveit4smiles, Christina Chatfield said: ‘Everybody had a wonderful day and managed to raise an incredible amount of money, the Argus Appeal is a fantastic cause which has contributed to the local community for almost six decades and we are excited to be part of it.

‘As well as raising valuable funds for mouth cancer the initiative has also helped to drive awareness of the urgent need for gender-neutral HPV vaccinations to help prevent mouth cancer within the local community.

‘We are especially thankful as this was the first time that Argus benefited a non-local charity and have already agreed to support the Moveit4smiles pedometer challenge in 2017 as part of their 60th anniversary.

‘We hope to build upon the pedometer challenge next year and are urging everybody to get moving and challenge themselves in aid of mouth cancer action.’

Moveit4smiles is an oral health initiative with a simple aim: to get moving and raise money in the fight against mouth cancer. If you’re passionate about raising awareness of oral health and wellbeing why not get involved and help make a difference to the awareness of mouth cancer?

Raising awareness

Dr Nigel Carter OBE, CEO of the Oral Health Foundation, said: ‘The work that Christina and the Moveit4smiles team does is vital in helping to spread understanding of mouth cancer to the wider community.

‘We are incredibly grateful to Moveit4smiles for their continued support of Mouth Cancer Action Month, their tireless effort in raising money and awareness of this disease is a valuable part of helping to reduce the impact of mouth cancer in the future.

‘Over the past few years Moveit4smiles have helped inform hundreds of thousands of people across the UK and their outspoken support of gender-neutral vaccinations helps to bring this important issue to the fore of the dental community.’

Running throughout November, Mouth Cancer Action Month is organised by the Oral Health Foundation and sponsored by Denplan. The charity campaign aims to raise awareness of the signs and symptoms of mouth cancer, in order to get more cases caught early enough to make a difference to the chances of survival.

To get involved in the Moveit4smiles pedometer challenge visit www.moveit4smiles.org/challenge. To find out more information about the signs, symptoms and causes of mouth cancer and see how you can get involved in Mouth Cancer Action Month 2016 visit www.mouthcancer.org.

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